{"title":"Nigeria-Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development of Petroleum and Other Resources","authors":"Wang Jia","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42250262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Benoit Mayer, International Law Obligations on Climate Change Mitigation","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44947277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Joint Investigation Team in Ukraine: An Opportunity for the International Criminal Court?","authors":"Yudan Tan, Suhong Yang","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war, a joint investigation team (JIT) with members of seven States and a participant from the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was set up on alleged core international crimes committed in Ukraine. It is an unprecedented development that the OTP joins a JIT with national authorities under the auspices of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust). This essay analyses how the OTP’s participation in the JIT in Ukraine may affect the proactive complementarity of the ICC. It identifies the benefits of a JIT tool and the potential consequences of the OTP’s engagement in a JIT for its independence and impartiality. It argues that despite concerns and challenges, the OTP’s participation in a JIT offers a novel modality of implementing the policy of proactive complementarity through two-track cooperation and assistance.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49113986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autonomy of Provisional Measures or Autonomy of the International Court of Justice?","authors":"Zhenni Li","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 With growing demand for legally binding provisional measures (since LaGrand) on situations of ongoing tension, the International Court of Justice has passively extended its role from judicial settlement of dispute to crisis management and policy making as the world judiciary. Yet this proactive role has rendered the Court in dilemma given its consent-based jurisdiction and the contractual nature of the current international legal order. In such a context, Qatar v. UAE marks the second case (the first being Georgia v. Russia) where the Court stayed silent to the alleged non-compliance with provisional measures when jurisdiction is declined. Such silence intensifies the doubts about the so-called autonomy of provisional measures. Reviewing its jurisprudence, this Article traces the status quo of the Court’s position: The temporal validity of provisional measures where jurisdiction is declined remains equivocal, and the Court’s jurisdiction over the alleged non-compliance with provisional measures is based on its jurisdiction over the original dispute. Climbing from one intermediacy to another intermediacy, the regime of provisional measures does not simply develop upon legal positivism. Instead, it concerns the delicate balance of the multiplicity in the role of the Court and is inherently subject to the changing environment of the international legal order.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45497334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Yasuaki Onuma, International Law in a Transcivilizational World","authors":"Luping Zhang","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48600118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Higher Law and the Principle of Non-Recognition","authors":"Agnese Vitale","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The principle of non-recognition represented, and still represents, one of the most relevant legality-checking instruments that the legal order has set. The principle is always triggered by the existence of a conflict involving a higher norm, a conflict which can be normative or material. Its general function is preventing the consolidation of legal consequences deriving from acts or situations that are contrary to higher rules. Just as higher rules cut across the boundaries between the law of treaties and the law of international responsibility, the presence and the effects of the principle of non-recognition are to be found in the three main functions: creation of the law, ascertainment of a wrongful act and enforcement of the law.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44099366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delimitation of the Extended Continental Shelf in Somalia v. Kenya in the ICJ: A Critique","authors":"Jianjun Gao","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Somalia v. Kenya is the first case where the ICJ delimited the boundary line of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles (the so-called “extended continental shelf”) between the Parties. Compared with the previous cases decided by other international tribunals on the same issue, the present case shows some differences. Particularly, the ICJ did not mention the three-stage methodology or other delimitation methods in the delimitation of the extended continental shelf, nor did it identify the relevant area or apply the disproportionality test. The ICJ in this case did not have any reliable evidence to ascertain the Parties’ entitlements to the extended continental shelf, and it did not make a clear determination on the issue of entitlements accordingly. The ICJ delimited the extended continental shelf by extending the boundary line within 200 nautical miles in the same direction, but its reasoning is not sufficient to support the decision. Besides, the Court did not pronounce that the delimitation line achieves an equitable solution. Indeed, in light of the relationship between entitlement and delimitation as well as the circumstances of the present case, the ICJ should have declined to delimit the extended continental shelf.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41381923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Edward S. Cohen, Power and Pluralism in International Law: Private International Law and Globalization","authors":"Yu Chen","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmac035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmac035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45150469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sailing with TWAIL: A Historical Inquiry into Third World Perspectives on the Law of the Sea","authors":"Endalew Lijalem Enyew","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmac028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmac028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The contemporary law of the sea is not only a making of its own time but also a result of evolutions from the past. Indeed, the LOSC reflects a particular historical trajectory from Grotius’s Mare Liberum to UNCLOS III and the historical circumstances under which it developed. Using TWAIL as a theoretical and methodological lens, this article critically analyzes the historical development of the law of the sea from Third World States’ standpoint. The article demonstrates that the rules and principles of the traditional law of the sea were conceptualized by and designed to promote the colonial and other interests of the powerful and technologically advanced Western States. Nonetheless, Third World States consistently challenged the old legal order of the sea and played significant roles in the evolution of existing doctrines and the development of new spatial architecture of the oceans and the associated principles. The article concludes that, despite such efforts of Third World States to reorient the law of the sea in a manner to address their interests, the protections that current international law offers to Third World States remain fragile in many areas, which areas continue to be subjects of the ongoing Third World struggle.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43526884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting Diplomatic Immunity in the Context of Employment Maltreatment and Human Trafficking: Reyes v. Al-Malki","authors":"Xiaofan Hu","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmac032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmac032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47142893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}